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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-2052

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.

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CVE-2016-2052

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jan 2016, 11:59 UTC

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.

osv:CVE-2016-2052
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2052",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2016-2052",
    "summary": "Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-2052",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H"
        }
      ],
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          ],
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:35.596202278Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544270",
        "https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=579625",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-76",
        "https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139#issuecomment-148289957",
        "https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/63ef0b41dc48d6112d1918c1b1de9de8ea90adb5"
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                  }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
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}